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  • Facebook Facebook is an English-language social networking website.
  • Fixed Wireless Refers to the operation of wireless devices or systems in fixed locations such as homes and offices.
  • Forms Forms are web pages comprised of text and “fields” for a user to fill in with information
  • FTP Applications File transfer protocol (FTP) applications are the simplest way to transfer files between computers over the internet.
  • FTP anonymous server Using the Internet’s File Transfer Protocol (FTP), anonymous FTP is a method for giving users access to files so that they don’t need to identify themselves to the server. Using an FTP program or the FTP command interface, the user enters “anonymous” as a user ID. Usually, the password is defaulted or furnished by the FTP server. Anonymous FTP is a common way to get access to a server in order to view or download files that are publicly available.
  • File Size File size The digital size of an image, measured in kilobytes (K), megabytes (MB), or gigabytes (GB). File size is proportional to the pixel dimensions of the image. Images with more pixels may produce more detail at a given printed size, but they require more disk space to store and may be slower to edit and print.
  • Freeze In computing, either a single computer program or the whole system may “hang” or become unresponsive to keyboard and mouse input. The term “hang” is synonymous with “freeze,”
  • Feather In graphic design, to feather is to soften an edge of an image by making the edge gradually fade out until it becomes transparent. In computer graphics, feathering blurs the edges of an image by building a transition boundary between the selection and its surrounding pixels.
  • File extension A file extension is a suffix at the end of a filename indicating what type of file it is. For example, in the filename “myreport.txt,” the .txt part indicates the file is a text document.
  • Firewall A Firewall is a system which limits network access between two or more networks. Normally, a Firewall is deployed between a trusted, protected private network and an untrusted public network.
  • Format To format media is to prepare the media for use with a particular file system. When you format media, you overwrite any existing information on the media.
  • Google Google, a popular search engine, is a tool for finding resources on the World Wide Web. Google scans web pages to find instances of the keywords you have entered in the search box.
  • GIF File Graphics Interchange Format”, a type of image file (extension .gif) supporting animation and transparancy but only 256 colours.
  • Gaussian Blur Gaussian blur is a widely used effect in graphics software such as Adobe Photoshop, The GIMP, Inkscape, and Paint.NET. It is typically used to reduce image noise and reduce detail levels.
  • Grayscale In digital photography black-and-white pictures are known as greyscales. They have 256 fixed tones of grey which run from 0 (black) to 255 (white) with greys numbered 1 to 254 in between.
  • Gigabyte A unit of storage measurement consisting of one billion bytes (one thousand megabytes).
  • HTML (HyperText Markup Language) A markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web
  • Hyperlink this is the clickable link in text or graphics on a Web page that takes you to another place on the same page, another page, or whole other site
  • Helper Applications helper applications are support applications embedded in web browsers and other software that allow the user to open files in those types of applications or software
  • Halo Effect is a ghosting or fuzziness around the elements or feature of an image this can usually be found on a low resolution jpeg image or gif image.
  • H.264 video H.264 is the latest and most advanced video standard CODEC developed jointly by ITU and MPEG. H.264/AVC provides a far more efficient algorithm for compressing video than any other compression method available. It typically outperforms all existing standards by a factor of three to four especially in comparison to MPEG-2.
  • Hard Drive a computer’s internal disk drive using a non-removable storage format.
  • Histogram A histogram is a plot of the number of pixels for each possible grayscale value. A histogram is a graph that shows the distribution of intensities in an image. The horizontal axis represents the full range of tonal values, the vertical axis indicates the number of pixels for each intensity value.
  • Hue Hue is one of the three main attributes of perceived color, in addition to lightness and chroma (or colorfulness). Hue is also one of the three dimensions in some colorspaces along with saturation, and brightness (also known as lightness or value).
  • Hostname Name which officially identifies each computer attached to the Internet.
  • Image Capture The process of acquiring an image through electronic means such as a scanner or a digital camera
  • iMac The Apple iMac is a desktop computer designed and built by Apple Inc.
  • iTunes is a media player of Apple Computer The software used for transferring music, photos and videos is called iTunes. The user can purchase digital music files from within iTunes.
  • Internet The Internet, sometimes called simply “the Net,” is a worldwide system of computer networks that allows users to send and receive information from other computers.
  • Index Page A default page that automatically displays when the top level of a Web site is accessed
  • ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) Integrated Services Digital Network - a system of all digital, high bandwidth telephone lines allowing for the simultaneous delivery of audio, video and data. Data travels at 128K bps
  • ISP(Internet Service Provider) An ISP is a business that provides an individual with access to the internet. Some methods of providing this service are through dial-up telephone, cable, or high-speed DSL circuit
  • IP Address All computers across the internet are assigned a unique identifier called an IP address. They are used like street addresses so other computers can find them. An IP address could look something like this: 87.242.211.23.
  • Image Map HTML information associated with a mapping of “hot spots” to image coordinate information. Clicking a hot spot links that image area to other web-based information
  • Javascript JavaScript is a programming language that is mostly used in web pages, usually to add features that make the web page more interactive. When JavaScript is included in an HTML file it relies upon the browser to interpret the JavaScript
  • JPEG File “Joint Photography Experts Group”. A compressed image format, often used for photographic images. The extension can be .jpg or .jpeg
  • Java Applets small programs written in the Java programming language that can be embedded into web pages. Applet programs run on the Internet user’s computer rather than the web server’s computer. Search engines can not run Java applets
  • Kai’s Power Tools a best-selling plug-in filter by Metatools. KPT have a vast array of tools i that are excellent at creating 3D effects, including filters for glass lens, page curl, and the new spheroid designer.
  • Kilobyte Approximately one thousand bytes (1024 bytes, to be exact). While kilobits are used to measure data transfer, kilobytes are used to measure memory
  • Kerberos Kerberos is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard for providing authentication. Kerberos works by having a central server grant a “ticket” honoured by all networked nodes running Kerberos.
  • Laptop A laptop is a portable personal computer that is of a size that it can sit on your lap
  • LOWSRC attribute HTML Images LowSrc Command - this command allows you to help the viewer out by loading a lesser version of a picture before the big colour version comes in.
  • Lab Mode is a  mode of viewing image file in Photoshop. Other modes are CMYK, RGB, Greyscale and Duotone.
  • Lasso Tool -  is one of a number of selection tools in Adobe Photoshop
  • Layer Mask Layer masks are special layers that are only 8 bits deep and that represent the alpha channel  of an image layer. The main difference between channel and layer masks is that the layer mask represents the alpha channel of the layer it is linked to, whereas channel masks represent selections and exist independently of any particular layer.
  • LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) A type of display used in digital watches and many portable computers. LCD displays utilize two sheets of polarizing material with a liquid crystal solution between them
  • LED (Light-emitting Diode) Light Emitting Diode. A display technology that uses a semiconductor diode that emits light when charged.
  • Lithium Ion One of the newer rechargeable battery technologies, Li Ion batteries can deliver 40% more capacity than comparably sized NiCd batteries and are one of the lightest rechargeable batteries available today.
  • Microsoft A software company, best known for the Windows operating system and ability to “embrace, extend and extinguish” other forms of digital technology
  • Memory Stick Memory Stick is a removable flash memory card format, launched by Sony in October 1998 , and is also used in general to describe the whole family of Memory Sticks
  • Mouse In computing, a mouse (plural mice or mouses) functions as a pointing device by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of a small case, held under one of the user’s hands, with one or more buttons
  • Mash Up The term mash-up refers to a new breed of Web-based applications created by hackers and programmers (typically on a volunteer basis) to mix at least two different services from disparate, and even competing, Web sites. A mash-up, for example, could overlay traffic data from one source on the Internet over maps from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google or any content provider. The term mash-up comes from the hip-hop music practice of mixing two or more songs. This capability to mix and match data and applications from multiple sources into one dynamic entity is considered by many to represent the promise of the Web service standard (also referred to as on-demand computing
  • Meta Tags are used in html page headers, and contain information about keywords and descriptions of the web page. This provides search engines with the information they require, enabling your site to be catalogued
  • Mirror Site A server which contains a duplicate of another WWW or FTP site. Mirror sites are created when the traffic on the original site becomes too heavy for a single server. Often mirror sites are located in different geographic areas allowing users to choose the site closest to them.
  • Media File These are the image, audio, video and text files - “Media Files” or Media. These files (.gif, .wav, .mpg, .txt, etc.) are also known as Assets
  • Monitor display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor
  • Media Player A program that plays back audio or video. Examples include Microsoft Windows Media Player, Apple’s QuickTime Player and RealOne Player
  • Melbourne IT Melbourne IT is an Australian Internet company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:MLB). Formed in 1996, its primary business is domain name registration in most of the major national and global top-level domains.
  • Megabyte n amount of computer memory consisting of about one million bytes. The actual value is 1,048,576 bytes.

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